NATCO Introductory Course Schedule & Handouts

November 2-6, 2007 - Tempe Mission Palms Hotel & Conference Center - Tempe, AZ

Program Schedule at a Glance

An Introductory Education Course for the NEW Transplant or Procurement Practitioner

 


Friday, November 2, 2007

 

PLENARY SESSION

 

Session

Speaker

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Jan Finn , RN, MSN, CPTC

General Medical Ethics

Katrina Bramstedt, PhD

 

Saturday, November 3, 2007

 

BREAKFAST SESSION

ABTC Certification for Clinical & Procurement Transplant Coordinators: Your Certification Questions Answered

Kathryn Howard, RN, BSN, CCTN, CCTC, ABTC Vice President

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 

Transplant Track

Session

Speaker

Immunology & Histocompatibility

Jonah Odim, MD, PhD, MBA

Mechanisms of Rejection

Jonah Odim, MD, PhD, MBA

Organ Allocation & Recipient Issues

Terri Bessom, MBA, CPhT

 

Procurement Track

Session

Speaker

Consent: If Only They All Said Yes

Gigi Vulgamott, RN, BSN, CPTC

Legal Alligators of Consent

Gigi Vulgamott, RN, BSN, CPTC

Donor & Recipient Histocompatibility

Jonah Odim, MD, PhD, MBA

PLENARY SESSION

Session

Speaker

Donation after Cardiac Death

National Consensus on Donation after Cardiac Death Report

Carrie Comellas , RN, BS, CPTC

Investing in Donation - PJ Geraghty

Investing in Transplantation - Susan Stoops Watson

Susan Stoops-Watson, LCSW, MPA, MSHA, CCM

PJ Geraghty, EMT-P, BS, CTBS, CPTC

Sunday, November 4, 2007

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 

Transplant Track

Session

Speaker

Infectious Diseases in Transplantation

Michael G. Ison, MD, MS

Drug Therapy in Transplantation

Curtis Holt, PharmD

Kidney Transplantation & Allocation of Kidney Grafts

Tammy Wright, RN, BSN, CCTC

Living Donation in Kidney Transplantation

Tammy Wright, RN, BSN, CCTC

 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED

 

Procurement Track

Session

Speaker

Organ Allocation & Donor Issues

Terri Bessom, MBA, CPhT

Donor Physical Assessment

Scott Brubaker, CTBS

Evaluating the Potential Organ Donor

Cynthia Wofford, RN, BSN, CPTC

Infectious Disease Assessment in the Organ Donor

Michael G. Ison, MD, MS

They Are Not All Small Adults: Pediatric Donor Management & Case Study Application

Thomas Nakagawa, MD, FAAP

 

Monday, November 5, 2007

 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 

Transplant Track

Session

Speaker

Care of the Pancreas Transplant Recipient

Angela Phelps, RN, CCTC

Islet Cell Transplantation

Arlene LaRose, RN, BSN, CNN, CCTC

Liver Transplantation & Allocation of Livers - Adult

Liver Transplantation & Allocation of Livers - Pediatric

Patricia Harren, RN, DrNP, CCTC

Living Donation in Liver Transplantation

Patricia Harren, RN, DrNP, CCTC

Intestinal Transplantation

Cindy R. Brown, APRN, NP-C

Pediatric Transplantation

Debra Strichartz, RN, BA, CCTC

 

Procurement Track

 

Session

Speaker

Care of the Adult Donor

Additional Resources

David Powner, MD, FCCP, FCCM

Adult Donor Management Case Study Application - Chest X-Ray Interpretation

David Powner, MD, FCCP, FCCM

Operating Room & Organ Preservation Techniques

Karen Samartan, RN, BSN, CNOR, CPTC

 


Tuesday, November 6, 2007

 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 

Transplant Track

Session

Speaker

Care of the Heart Transplant Recipient

Diane Kasper, RN, CCTC

Caring for the Lung & Heart-Lung Recipient

Danyel Gooch, RN, BSN, CCTC

 

Procurement Track

Session

Speaker

Quality of Hospital Services

Laura Huckestein, RN, BSN, CPTC

Research & Tissue

Louis Jares, BS, CTBS

Tracey Knotts, RN, CPTC

 

 


Last Updated: October 16, 2007